reminds me of Karl Rove, election eve 2004 sitting in front of spreadsheets on computers in the WH basement -- and then after Kerry was leading, suddenly the results went in the other direction after midnight...
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/senior-advisor-to-president-bush-karl-rove-left-and-his-news-photo/525632382#senior-advisor-to-president-bush-karl-rove-left-and-his-assistant-picture-id525632382
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Published on
Thursday, June 01, 2006
by
Rolling Stone
Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House
by
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
https://www.commondreams.org/views06/0601-34.htm
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Kim Zetter Security Date of Publication: 04.24.07.
Did Ohio Election Data Run Through Republican Servers?
https://www.wired.com/2007/04/did_ohio_electi/
Election_ohioSlashdot is renewing a controversy that popped up previously but has been re-energized by the recent White House e-mail scandal.
snip...Back in 2004 during the presidential election, the Ohio secretary of state web site, which reports election results after they come in from counties on election day, routed through a hosting company called Smartech Corporation in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Smartech also hosts a range of sites for the Republican National Committee, among them the controversial gwb43.com domain that some White House officials are said to have used for correspondence to evade having their emails disclosed through public records requests.
As a Netcraft search shows, the Ohio SoS site was hosted by Smartech in Tennessee on November 3, 2004 (the election was November 2nd) but then reverted to a different Ohio-based host on November 5 through February 6, 2006.
This information made the rounds last year and now voting activists have seized it as evidence that the RNC controlled the votes on election night in Ohio and altered them. No one has explained how that would work. Hosting a web site that displays election results is not the same as changing votes that are tabulated and first reported at the county level.
Nonetheless, the fact that the SoS election results page passes through a host that is so closely connected to the RNC is worth noting. Its not a surprise, however, since former Ohio SoS Ken Blackwell was co-chair of President Bushs re-election campaign...snip